http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/2012/03/12/illicit-elicit-solicit/ Official blog of the AMA Manual of Style Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/2012/03/12/illicit-elicit-solicit/#comment-490 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:40:32 +0000 http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/?p=386#comment-490 In some countries, it is an illicit practice for pharmaceutical companies, through direct-to-consumer advertising, to solicit members of the public to use their products, but in America and New Zealand, patients often elicit prescriptions from their prescribers for products they have seen on television or read about in magazines.

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